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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Quay County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Arch and Ola Hurley House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Hurley, Arch and Ola, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 117 West High Street, Tucumcari, 88401
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Tucumcari
- National Register reference number. 100011238 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Arch and Ola Hurley House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,804 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WALLY |
| 28 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Las Vegas District | R . EVETTS |
| 28 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAMINO |
| 18 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BRADLEY |
| 18 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WRIGHT |
| 7 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Las Vegas District | 20-40600481X |
| 31 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BUG |
| 23 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BLUE WATER |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Arch and Ola Hurley House: 5 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawn Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
60 of 80 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tucumcari, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 61 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | $500,000 | Multiple reports of flash flooding were received via social media during the evening of May 25, 2023. Streets throughout town were flooded, closed, or impassable with vehicles being stranded in some spots. Water was also reported to have reached up to business entrances. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | $40,000 | High winds gusting 60-65 mph in Tucumcari ripped away parts of a motel roof. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | $25,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which resulted in extensive street flooding in Tucumcari and Logan. Several vehicles became stuck in as much as three feet of water and at least one home was flooded. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorms in Quay County produced hail up to quarter size and strong winds which snapped some power poles in town. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | $15,000 | State Road 104 was washed out just south of the Quay-San Miguel County line. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | $5,000 | A cooperative observer reported several power poles downed and a small travel trailer overturned during a strong storm near Tucumcari. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tucumcari | $3,000 | Baseball hail 4 miles north of Tucumcari. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | $2,000 | Strong winds resulted in roof damage to a house. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tucumcari | $1,000 | Baseball hail 3 miles northwest of Tucumcari. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | One inch hail was reported with a severe thunderstorm near Tucumcari on the morning of March 13th. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | A COOP observer near Tucumcari reported nickel size hail from a strong thunderstorm tracking southwestward through the area. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Quarter size hail reported in Tucumcari. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | A spotter reported a thunderstorm outflow wind gust up to 60 mph along with pea size hail and significant blowing dust. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Hail at least the size of half dollars fell a couple miles southeast of Tucumcari. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Quarter size hail in Tucumcari. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Dime to penny size hail in Tucumcari. Lightning strike also blew up a transformer. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | Peak gust to 60 mph with dime size hail reported in Tucumcari. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Golf ball hail at NMSU Agricultural Science Center. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Penny hail reported 10 miles east southeast of Tucumcari. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | Trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Spotter reported pea to quarter size hail. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs were downed. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Nickel size hail reported in Tucumcari. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | A burst of hail on the north side of storm core moving over central and eastern Tucumcari. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Hail to 3 inches deep filling ditches and covering the roads on northeast side of Tucumcari. Highway department called out to blade ice from roads. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | - | Sheriff deputies reported low water crossings flooded and several county roads closed by heavy rain southwest of Tucumcari. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | - | Heavy rain flooded underpasses and frontage roads along Interstate 40 in Tucumcari. Several cars were trapped between arroyos and then submerged by rising water after being abandoned by the drivers. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Severe thunderstorms in Quay County produced hail up to quarter size and strong winds which snapped some power poles in town. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Severe thunderstorms in Quay County produced hail up to quarter size and strong winds which snapped some power poles in town. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | Thunderstorms in far eastern New Mexico produced dime-size hail and excessive rainfall. A heavy band of rain extended from near Field to Texico in Curry County with up to six inches of rain. Major street flooding occurred in both Clovis and Texico. Highways 523 and 18 were closed for the night. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucumcari | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
7,159 digitised pages2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 718 issues, 7,159 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Tucumcari News | 1905 to 1907 |
| The Tucumcari News and Tucumcari Times | 1907 to 1921 |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Arch Hurley Conservancy District Office Building | under 500 feet | 1994 |
 | Odeon Theater | 0.3 miles | 2007 |
 | Blue Swallow Motel | 0.7 miles | 1993 |
 | Cactus Motor Lodge | 0.9 miles | 2006 |
 | Metropolitan Park Bathhouse and Pool Historic District | 4.7 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011238 in Record Group 79. |
| Quay County | All 13 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.